Surefire should provide a pluggable means to specify a custom provider

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  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Blocker Blocker
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: 2.7
  • Component/s: None
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Description

The current way that surefire determines which provider to use is hard coded and based on a project's dependencies. I would like to write a custom surefire-provider and be able to specify to use that provider without having to patch the surefire plugin. In my case I want to write a surefire-provider that will run Eclipse PDE Junits which wouldn't neccessarily have a specific dependency listed

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Task - A task that needs to be done. SUREFIRE-292 Documentation for surefire API and providers

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is related to

Improvement - An improvement or enhancement to an existing feature or task. SUREFIRE-352 Get rid of hardcoded TestNG dependency name.

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Arnaud Bailly added a comment -

In my case, I would like to add a custom provider for generating coverage information during testing. This would allow coverage reports to be generated without the need to rerun tests.

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Arnaud Bailly added a comment - In my case, I would like to add a custom provider for generating coverage information during testing. This would allow coverage reports to be generated without the need to rerun tests.
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Ralf Ebert added a comment -

Also there is a nitpicking corner case where the provider cannot be guessed by looking at the project dependencies: Building JUnit with Maven. JUnit has a pom.xml ( http://github.com/KentBeck/junit/blob/master/pom.xml ) but will not specify JUnit as dependency but still wants its tests to be executed using 'surefire-junit4'. A way to explicitly specify the provider would help here.

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Ralf Ebert added a comment - Also there is a nitpicking corner case where the provider cannot be guessed by looking at the project dependencies: Building JUnit with Maven. JUnit has a pom.xml ( http://github.com/KentBeck/junit/blob/master/pom.xml ) but will not specify JUnit as dependency but still wants its tests to be executed using 'surefire-junit4'. A way to explicitly specify the provider would help here.
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Stephen Connolly added a comment -

Putting in the bucket for 2.7

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Stephen Connolly added a comment - Putting in the bucket for 2.7
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Stephen Connolly added a comment -

this should be a must fix for 2.7

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Stephen Connolly added a comment - this should be a must fix for 2.7
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Jacek Furmankiewicz added a comment -

is there any timeline for this? We would like to start using non-Java BDD tools such as Cucumber (Ruby) or Lettuce (Python) instead of using typical JUnit for integration tests. This would mean writing either our own separate Mojo that would plug into the integration-test phase (or better) just adding a Surefire provider.

Thank you

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Jacek Furmankiewicz added a comment - is there any timeline for this? We would like to start using non-Java BDD tools such as Cucumber (Ruby) or Lettuce (Python) instead of using typical JUnit for integration tests. This would mean writing either our own separate Mojo that would plug into the integration-test phase (or better) just adding a Surefire provider. Thank you
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Kristian Rosenvold added a comment -

Fixed in a large number of commits. API is not frozen until further notice.

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Kristian Rosenvold added a comment - Fixed in a large number of commits. API is not frozen until further notice.

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  • Assignee:
    Kristian Rosenvold
    Reporter:
    Micah Whitacre
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